Yes, this happened. Yes, this information is probably a hell of a lot easier to get than it should be. But unless stories like this get major news coverage, this probably won't stop the push for national IDs.
And even IF National Security IDs arent implemented, that won't stop the human factor in the equation. Somewhere along the line, humans can steal this data. And with the recent push of many places to have Social Security Numbers as UIDs, its becoming easier & easier. (For example, a bank I used to use made your SSN your logon ID to the online system, AND PASSED IT VIA QUERYSTRING to the pin page! That's just asking for disaster.)
Either way, this information is already too easy to get to. A national security ID system would be cracked within a year, IMHO. ID Theft is a big enough problem already, we don't need to give criminals a nice centralized location for every bit of information they could ever want. (Moreso than we do now, that is)
I talked to a few people at Comcast back when Excite was having trouble earlier this year, and they hinted at the fact that there wouldn't be a problem if Excite went under.
Later, when I called to complain about the newly-imposed bandwidth caps, they hinted at the fact that they would be offering different service plans in the near future, and mentioned Excite's financial troubles numerous times.
Also, if you notice they have had their own portal (www.icomcast.net) up and running for some time now.
Lastly, they just upped their cable modem service rates--from what I'm told by people at Comcast again, its to cover new operating expenses (read: no more Excite).
So, with any luck, Comcast users shouldn't experience many, if any, problems with service. All signs are pointing to them keeping service afloat.
Comments like that make me really sad. If you don't make the decision to make a change yourself, then no one will do it for you. Come on... take the initiative and do something new.
I think you might be missing the point of that comment. The fact of the matter is that a lot of developers, etc., are stuck with whatever OS their company demands of them. I can't just format my work machine and put on Solaris or RedHat, since my office is a MS shop. The same would be true in reverse, too.
I would love to be idealistic and put Linux on my work machine and have IT change every machine in the company, but if you work in a large environment, its a pipe dream. Large companies only care about the bottom line, not about their developers favorite OS. This type of software IS needed. Sad but true.
Cable modem services don't support Linux. If you call them for help on anything but a Windows Machine (they dont even officially support Macs around here), they won't help you. So how do they plan to get their software running on your machine? Besides, you know people will find a way around this.
Around here, the cable companies are already annoyed by the fact that not everyone runs their cable modem through their proxy server or uses their software. And they already have a ridiculous source of income thanks to their $10/month modem rental fee (Btw, Linksys has a nice Cable Modem that is down to $100 now, which is cheaper than a year's rental fee.) and $8/month per additional IP charges. They don't need any more money because I want to have a third computer in my house.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I won't stand for them trying to charge me for additional IPs for every connected device. Having things like my printer networked inside my house doesn't cost them a dime, and it shouldn't cost me one either.
From the article: "Last year, BT said it had discovered that it holds U.S. patent 4,873,662"
Why do I have a mental picture of Jed Clampett in my head right now?
"Look Ma, We done found a hyperlink patent!"
"Well, Goll-y!"
Seriously though, you don't just "discover" that you have a patent, you wait until the sucker is approved then try to figure out the most strategic way to get money with it. I am so sick of these patents anymore.
Well, maybe he wanted to open a dedicated discussion to the topic. His update was made very late in that previous topic, so only the last few comments mentioned anything about it.
Think about it, worldwide, there are actually VERY few broadband home connections. Modems are still far and away the most common means for accessing the internet. So if there is ever going to be a hope for getting linux on the desktop, it WILL need good softmodem support.
Besides, think of how many OEM machines in the last 5 years came with v.90 winmodems standard. The number is pretty damn high. You won't win too many converts by telling them that the first thing they need to do is buy a new modem...
While I'm sure someone else could answer this far better than I, I'll give it a shot, as I studied skin cancer for a bit of time.
In regards to skin cancer anyway, a cancer cell is developed when the DNA helix inside the cell becomes damaged and mutates, causing the normal C,G,T,&A bonds to break and reform in ways they shouldnt. Tada, you have a cancerous cell. Now when the cell adjacent to the cancer cell dies, it can either be replaced by the mitosis-spawned cell of a healthy cell in the surrounding area, or the aforementioned mitosis-spawned cancer cell. If it gets replaced by the cancer cell, then the process can keep repeating until a large number of cells are cancerous. Tada, you have a tumor. In skin cancer cases, the mutation usually occurs from heavy sunlight exposure.
In regards to your second question, I'm not totally sure, but I believe the radiation kills off the cells that have improper DNA helixes faster than regular helixes. Someone please correct me I am wrong.
Just like how a certain percentage of people don't respond at all to Chemotherapy, it would be interesting to see what percentage of people respond positively to this once it becomes available.
Of course, the first problem with cancer is that in a large majority of cases, by the time the cancer is discovered, it has spread throughout the body far too much to be effectively treated. Even with this promising technique, early detection is still the best hope for many people.
Has anyone else noticed an increase in damage lately, or is it just me?
Actually, I have too. My mail service here has always been excellent, and that includes UPS/FedEx deliveries on top of USPS. However, I noticed that over the past 6 months or so, my UPS packages have been arriving a lot more beat up than usual. One package (from the man who has 1 million Atari games) arrived basically missing 2 sides of the box! FORTUNATELY, he had placed my order inside of a second box, so although all the boxes were destroyed, the contents of the package were somehow ok. No, it wasn't marked as fragile.
To be completely honest, I try to avoid shipping anything myself via UPS. USPS is almost always cheaper & faster, even for larger packages. And to be honest, I've found them a hell of a lot easier to deal with than UPS. (Less of a bureaucracy;)
Anyway, I hope this guy can get his money back, thats a horrible situation to be in. My advice, get a lawyer.
Watching the demo of it in use, I was especially impressed with the 3DSMax portion of it. Its a common saying in the industry that trying to model something on a computer is like trying to sculpt clay with boxing gloves on. This could change that old axiom. From the looks of it, this thing would be far easier to use than any of the LogiCad3D devices
Currently, most models are first carved out of clay, then scanned into a computer using a progressive laser and manipulated digitally. A product like this, that actually lets you accurately manipulate 3D space without having to break work flow and check your positioning in relation to axes, could do wonders for the modeling industry. In my opinion, if its as easy to use as it looked in the demo, this thing will sell like crazy.
November 7, 2001 marks a new historic event in domain name suffixes.
Why? Did something important happen?? Because.biz is not important at all.
In all seriousness, this is going to be the biggest top-level domain FLOP ever. All this amounts to is more spam for me to report to Spamcop. People need to realize that no other domain is going to have the same effect as.com on consumers, nor will it be as profitable.
The video control panel. Even if you try to adjust the brightness in game (under windows anyway), it pauses, adjusts, clicks back to Windows, then re-enters the game and puts you in limbo, and then resumes. C'mon, even the original Wolf 3D could adjust brightness easier!
It seems to me that a lot of her argument is based upon the assumption that photographers with digital cameras wont "experiment" as much, (because they can see their pictures as soon as they take them) and that they will delete unnecessary pictures because of storage issues.
However, I disagree with these being valid points. First off, should photographers really be taking pictures of everything in site, hoping one or two comes out ok? That's an enormous expense to their employer, or their own pockets. Being wasteful != better photographer. And as for running out of space, you can easily hold a large number of flash cards on you at any given time. Photographers shell out thousands for film, so why wouldn't they drop a couple hundred and get a lot of flash cards? At least flash cards are reusable. Also, how is deleting bad pictures any different from throwing out ones that turned out badly? Not only is there less of an environmental impact (no discarded papers, no wasted developing chemicals), but she seems to be forgetting just how many photos wind up on the cutting room floor, the garbage can, etc.
Lastly, I don't think digital cameras will ever fully replace film, at least not until photo printers become a lot cheaper for the average consumer. Your grandmother won't want to whip out a Flash card everytime someone wants to see a picture of her grandson, she's going to want something tangible, in a frame. Photos will never stay entirely digital.
That I'll now be getting hundreds of "Register your.US name now! The good domains are going FAST!!" spam mails, on top of the.biz and.info spam I already get??
I always thought the VA linux hardware was a good route for them, and they discontinued that line and sold off all their machines (I picked one up for cheap on ebay, btw).
So what do they have now? Just sourceforge, thinkgeek, some misc. ads & services? Honestly, does anyone know what kind of move they are planning here, because this seems like another step in the wrong direction to me.
Still too little, too late.
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I really don't know if Netscape is going to be salvaged as a browser, even if AOL uses it instead of IE for their service. Netscape had its loyal followers in the 2/3 and even 4.0 days. But with 6 being released over a year late, not to mention the overall slow speed & bugginess of the 6.0 final, and the HUGE push for AOL-EVERYTHING in it now, even the most hardcore Netscape fans I know dropped it. IMHO, AOL killed it, and I don't think they can bring it back now.
Hell, 6.x is supposed to be semi-up-to-date, and it still supports far less than Opera 5, which is rapidly becoming my favorite browser. Quick, stable, and supports a hell of a lot. Netscape 6 however remains buggy, bloated, and full of stuff that I just don't WANT (like the AOL icons everywhere!!), but doesn't give you an option to not put that crap everywhere.
I simply don't want to install a product that shoves icons all over my system without asking.
I figured I would try to convert this to AVI or some format those/. readers who don't have a dual-boot/win machine could read, but upon trying to open the video in VirtualDub I get a nice message saying "ASF support has been removed at the request of Microsoft."
At my last job, my boss was very slow in getting me an ID badge, even a temporary guest pass, so that I could swipe myself in. Employees should have one immediately, but it took him over 3 weeks to get me a temporary badge. So what did I do in the mean time? I snuck my way into the building, every day.
For the first few days, I had security let me in, but they got real frustrated with checking me in. So every morning, I would park my car, get out, and start towards the side door, which happened to be closest to the IT department. I would then try to find someone who was walking towards that door and high-tail it behind them. If no one was going into the building at that time, I'd stop, pretend to take a phone call on my cell, or tie my shoes repeatedly, until someone walked past me, and then I'd just walk quickly behind them so they would hold the door for me.
Not once during those 3 weeks did I ever get questioned by anybody, which surprised me greatly, especially considering I was about 20 years younger than anyone else at the company, and I have facial piercings.
The moral of the story is that the overall trusting nature of humans is very easy to exploit, and this guy obviously shows off that point on a daily basis. Maybe we all should be a little more wary...
First, does anyone have an idea about how much this will cost, what PDAs it works with, what kind of outputs it has, ANYTHING? A lot more information is needed.
Second, why USB? Perhaps this is for compatibility with the aforementioned PDAs/MP3 players, but IMHO it should have firewire for future scalability.
Third, cost could easily kill this thing. It doesn't seem like it has many more features than say a GCT Allwell set-top (which is easily hackable), and the aesthetics of it certainly don't appeal to me, so the only way that I would consider it is if the price was *very* low.
Fourth, how much you want to bet that the RIAA will have a field day trying to push against this thing? Maybe they already have a foothold (i.e. you wont be able to burn anything unless its a digitally signed download, etc.?) with this. I myself don't trust set-top devices for burning, especially not with the latest digital rights management push.
Fifth, Access to RealNetworks will never convince me to shell out money. In fact, nothing Real has ever done anything worthy of purchasing, in my opinion. I just don't think its a selling point.
On a side note, all of my home entertainment equipment is Black, what's with this sudden push to make everything blue && || silver? Cut it out!
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Yes, this happened. Yes, this information is probably a hell of a lot easier to get than it should be. But unless stories like this get major news coverage, this probably won't stop the push for national IDs.
And even IF National Security IDs arent implemented, that won't stop the human factor in the equation. Somewhere along the line, humans can steal this data. And with the recent push of many places to have Social Security Numbers as UIDs, its becoming easier & easier. (For example, a bank I used to use made your SSN your logon ID to the online system, AND PASSED IT VIA QUERYSTRING to the pin page! That's just asking for disaster.)
Either way, this information is already too easy to get to. A national security ID system would be cracked within a year, IMHO. ID Theft is a big enough problem already, we don't need to give criminals a nice centralized location for every bit of information they could ever want. (Moreso than we do now, that is)
I talked to a few people at Comcast back when Excite was having trouble earlier this year, and they hinted at the fact that there wouldn't be a problem if Excite went under.
Later, when I called to complain about the newly-imposed bandwidth caps, they hinted at the fact that they would be offering different service plans in the near future, and mentioned Excite's financial troubles numerous times.
Also, if you notice they have had their own portal (www.icomcast.net) up and running for some time now.
Lastly, they just upped their cable modem service rates--from what I'm told by people at Comcast again, its to cover new operating expenses (read: no more Excite).
So, with any luck, Comcast users shouldn't experience many, if any, problems with service. All signs are pointing to them keeping service afloat.
Comments like that make me really sad. If you don't make the decision to make a change yourself, then no one will do it for you. Come on... take the initiative and do something new.
I think you might be missing the point of that comment. The fact of the matter is that a lot of developers, etc., are stuck with whatever OS their company demands of them. I can't just format my work machine and put on Solaris or RedHat, since my office is a MS shop. The same would be true in reverse, too.
I would love to be idealistic and put Linux on my work machine and have IT change every machine in the company, but if you work in a large environment, its a pipe dream. Large companies only care about the bottom line, not about their developers favorite OS. This type of software IS needed. Sad but true.
Cable modem services don't support Linux. If you call them for help on anything but a Windows Machine (they dont even officially support Macs around here), they won't help you. So how do they plan to get their software running on your machine? Besides, you know people will find a way around this.
Around here, the cable companies are already annoyed by the fact that not everyone runs their cable modem through their proxy server or uses their software. And they already have a ridiculous source of income thanks to their $10/month modem rental fee (Btw, Linksys has a nice Cable Modem that is down to $100 now, which is cheaper than a year's rental fee.) and $8/month per additional IP charges. They don't need any more money because I want to have a third computer in my house.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I won't stand for them trying to charge me for additional IPs for every connected device. Having things like my printer networked inside my house doesn't cost them a dime, and it shouldn't cost me one either.
You can find a good source of Tempest Info here: http://www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/encryption/TEMPEST. htm
I find it very funny that this information used to be classified in the 1950's.
From the article: "Last year, BT said it had discovered that it holds U.S. patent 4,873,662"
Why do I have a mental picture of Jed Clampett in my head right now?
"Look Ma, We done found a hyperlink patent!"
"Well, Goll-y!"
Seriously though, you don't just "discover" that you have a patent, you wait until the sucker is approved then try to figure out the most strategic way to get money with it. I am so sick of these patents anymore.
Well, maybe he wanted to open a dedicated discussion to the topic. His update was made very late in that previous topic, so only the last few comments mentioned anything about it.
Modems are dying only to the /. community.
Think about it, worldwide, there are actually VERY few broadband home connections. Modems are still far and away the most common means for accessing the internet. So if there is ever going to be a hope for getting linux on the desktop, it WILL need good softmodem support.
Besides, think of how many OEM machines in the last 5 years came with v.90 winmodems standard. The number is pretty damn high. You won't win too many converts by telling them that the first thing they need to do is buy a new modem...
While I'm sure someone else could answer this far better than I, I'll give it a shot, as I studied skin cancer for a bit of time.
In regards to skin cancer anyway, a cancer cell is developed when the DNA helix inside the cell becomes damaged and mutates, causing the normal C,G,T,&A bonds to break and reform in ways they shouldnt. Tada, you have a cancerous cell. Now when the cell adjacent to the cancer cell dies, it can either be replaced by the mitosis-spawned cell of a healthy cell in the surrounding area, or the aforementioned mitosis-spawned cancer cell. If it gets replaced by the cancer cell, then the process can keep repeating until a large number of cells are cancerous. Tada, you have a tumor. In skin cancer cases, the mutation usually occurs from heavy sunlight exposure.
In regards to your second question, I'm not totally sure, but I believe the radiation kills off the cells that have improper DNA helixes faster than regular helixes. Someone please correct me I am wrong.
Just like how a certain percentage of people don't respond at all to Chemotherapy, it would be interesting to see what percentage of people respond positively to this once it becomes available.
Of course, the first problem with cancer is that in a large majority of cases, by the time the cancer is discovered, it has spread throughout the body far too much to be effectively treated. Even with this promising technique, early detection is still the best hope for many people.
Has anyone else noticed an increase in damage lately, or is it just me?
;)
Actually, I have too. My mail service here has always been excellent, and that includes UPS/FedEx deliveries on top of USPS. However, I noticed that over the past 6 months or so, my UPS packages have been arriving a lot more beat up than usual. One package (from the man who has 1 million Atari games) arrived basically missing 2 sides of the box! FORTUNATELY, he had placed my order inside of a second box, so although all the boxes were destroyed, the contents of the package were somehow ok. No, it wasn't marked as fragile.
To be completely honest, I try to avoid shipping anything myself via UPS. USPS is almost always cheaper & faster, even for larger packages. And to be honest, I've found them a hell of a lot easier to deal with than UPS. (Less of a bureaucracy
Anyway, I hope this guy can get his money back, thats a horrible situation to be in. My advice, get a lawyer.
Watching the demo of it in use, I was especially impressed with the 3DSMax portion of it. Its a common saying in the industry that trying to model something on a computer is like trying to sculpt clay with boxing gloves on. This could change that old axiom. From the looks of it, this thing would be far easier to use than any of the LogiCad3D devices
Currently, most models are first carved out of clay, then scanned into a computer using a progressive laser and manipulated digitally. A product like this, that actually lets you accurately manipulate 3D space without having to break work flow and check your positioning in relation to axes, could do wonders for the modeling industry.
In my opinion, if its as easy to use as it looked in the demo, this thing will sell like crazy.
November 7, 2001 marks a new historic event in domain name suffixes.
.biz is not important at all.
.com on consumers, nor will it be as profitable.
Why? Did something important happen?? Because
In all seriousness, this is going to be the biggest top-level domain FLOP ever. All this amounts to is more spam for me to report to Spamcop. People need to realize that no other domain is going to have the same effect as
But I predicted the RIAA's foothold in HP's device when the story broke last time:6 850
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23075&cid=248
Here's to hoping that set-top fails faster than DivX.
The video control panel. Even if you try to adjust the brightness in game (under windows anyway), it pauses, adjusts, clicks back to Windows, then re-enters the game and puts you in limbo, and then resumes. C'mon, even the original Wolf 3D could adjust brightness easier!
Is actually here: http://astra.hi.gemini.edu/gallery/science/m87/
It seems to me that a lot of her argument is based upon the assumption that photographers with digital cameras wont "experiment" as much, (because they can see their pictures as soon as they take them) and that they will delete unnecessary pictures because of storage issues.
However, I disagree with these being valid points. First off, should photographers really be taking pictures of everything in site, hoping one or two comes out ok? That's an enormous expense to their employer, or their own pockets. Being wasteful != better photographer. And as for running out of space, you can easily hold a large number of flash cards on you at any given time. Photographers shell out thousands for film, so why wouldn't they drop a couple hundred and get a lot of flash cards? At least flash cards are reusable.
Also, how is deleting bad pictures any different from throwing out ones that turned out badly? Not only is there less of an environmental impact (no discarded papers, no wasted developing chemicals), but she seems to be forgetting just how many photos wind up on the cutting room floor, the garbage can, etc.
Lastly, I don't think digital cameras will ever fully replace film, at least not until photo printers become a lot cheaper for the average consumer. Your grandmother won't want to whip out a Flash card everytime someone wants to see a picture of her grandson, she's going to want something tangible, in a frame. Photos will never stay entirely digital.
That I'll now be getting hundreds of "Register your .US name now! The good domains are going FAST!!" spam mails, on top of the .biz and .info spam I already get??
I always thought the VA linux hardware was a good route for them, and they discontinued that line and sold off all their machines (I picked one up for cheap on ebay, btw).
So what do they have now? Just sourceforge, thinkgeek, some misc. ads & services? Honestly, does anyone know what kind of move they are planning here, because this seems like another step in the wrong direction to me.
I really don't know if Netscape is going to be salvaged as a browser, even if AOL uses it instead of IE for their service. Netscape had its loyal followers in the 2/3 and even 4.0 days. But with 6 being released over a year late, not to mention the overall slow speed & bugginess of the 6.0 final, and the HUGE push for AOL-EVERYTHING in it now, even the most hardcore Netscape fans I know dropped it. IMHO, AOL killed it, and I don't think they can bring it back now.
Hell, 6.x is supposed to be semi-up-to-date, and it still supports far less than Opera 5, which is rapidly becoming my favorite browser. Quick, stable, and supports a hell of a lot. Netscape 6 however remains buggy, bloated, and full of stuff that I just don't WANT (like the AOL icons everywhere!!), but doesn't give you an option to not put that crap everywhere.
I simply don't want to install a product that shoves icons all over my system without asking.
Well, since the site is getting hit pretty hard, here is a direct link to all the mirrors:
t f-defcon9
Capture the Capture The Flag Mirrors
If you have a mirror up, please let me know.
If you're using wget to pull the data, please use the following command:
 wget -r -nd --no-parent -R "=A","=D" http://site/path/
US - Wisconsin (100Mbit):
http://www.wi2600.org/mediawhore/mirrors/shmoo/cc
US - Colorado (100Mbit):
http://www.ucar.edu/temp/shmoo-defcon9-ctf/
US - Pennsylvania (T1):
http://www.bitsend.com/defcon9-cctf
US - Alaska (DSL):
http://cctf1.shmoo.com
Please be sure to read the license.
I figured I would try to convert this to AVI or some format those /. readers who don't have a dual-boot/win machine could read, but upon trying to open the video in VirtualDub I get a nice message saying "ASF support has been removed at the request of Microsoft."
Damn it!
At my last job, my boss was very slow in getting me an ID badge, even a temporary guest pass, so that I could swipe myself in. Employees should have one immediately, but it took him over 3 weeks to get me a temporary badge. So what did I do in the mean time? I snuck my way into the building, every day.
For the first few days, I had security let me in, but they got real frustrated with checking me in. So every morning, I would park my car, get out, and start towards the side door, which happened to be closest to the IT department. I would then try to find someone who was walking towards that door and high-tail it behind them.
If no one was going into the building at that time, I'd stop, pretend to take a phone call on my cell, or tie my shoes repeatedly, until someone walked past me, and then I'd just walk quickly behind them so they would hold the door for me.
Not once during those 3 weeks did I ever get questioned by anybody, which surprised me greatly, especially considering I was about 20 years younger than anyone else at the company, and I have facial piercings.
The moral of the story is that the overall trusting nature of humans is very easy to exploit, and this guy obviously shows off that point on a daily basis. Maybe we all should be a little more wary...
First, does anyone have an idea about how much this will cost, what PDAs it works with, what kind of outputs it has, ANYTHING? A lot more information is needed.
Second, why USB? Perhaps this is for compatibility with the aforementioned PDAs/MP3 players, but IMHO it should have firewire for future scalability.
Third, cost could easily kill this thing. It doesn't seem like it has many more features than say a GCT Allwell set-top (which is easily hackable), and the aesthetics of it certainly don't appeal to me, so the only way that I would consider it is if the price was *very* low.
Fourth, how much you want to bet that the RIAA will have a field day trying to push against this thing? Maybe they already have a foothold (i.e. you wont be able to burn anything unless its a digitally signed download, etc.?) with this. I myself don't trust set-top devices for burning, especially not with the latest digital rights management push.
Fifth, Access to RealNetworks will never convince me to shell out money. In fact, nothing Real has ever done anything worthy of purchasing, in my opinion. I just don't think its a selling point.
On a side note, all of my home entertainment equipment is Black, what's with this sudden push to make everything blue && || silver? Cut it out!
Just what we need, another standard for Lucas to throw Star Wars onto!